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fantastic but not cheap - Tony Betts - 05-01-2019
Christmas just a little late today.
Had a delivery of 4 cranks and 10 sets of rods.
Bee waiting for over three years for these.
And this time I GET TO KEEP ONE.
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This is the main ingredient for my idea of a very fast perfect engine.
Mine is number 10 from the batch.
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And this is it.
A fully counterbalanced HADLEY crank.
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And matching set of HADLEY rods.
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RE: fantastic but not cheap - Ruairidh Dunford - 05-01-2019
Nice one Tony - what will it go in?
RE: fantastic but not cheap - Charles P - 05-01-2019
Lovely Tony.
The premium Austin 7 crankshaft solution!
Charles
RE: fantastic but not cheap - Colin Reed - 05-01-2019
HI Tony,
Would recommend the Rods they are TOP END well finished and perfectly Balanced
and happy to enlarge small end to 15mm for me
Colin
NZ
RE: fantastic but not cheap - Ruairidh Dunford - 05-01-2019
A dream to fit, I agree Colin, top notch.
RE: fantastic but not cheap - Zetomagneto - 05-01-2019
(05-01-2019, 09:21 PM)Colin Reed Wrote: HI Tony,
Would recommend the Rods they are TOP END well finished and perfectly Balanced
and happy to enlarge small end to 15mm for me
Colin
NZ
Hi Colin, may I ask what Pistons you are using with a 15 mm small end?
RE: fantastic but not cheap - Tony Betts - 05-01-2019
Hi R,
I travel the usa every year.
But it's always been a dream to take say 4 months in a camper with a seven on the back to take in as much as I can. Across the states coast to coast.
Including the bonnaville salt flats. Hopefully registering a seven for a run.
What I'll put the engine in? I'm not quite sure. Something I already have. Or even, I have an idea for a special, and even some parts ive saved up?
And Colin, I'm glad you like the rods.
I'm happy to be able to say I had quite a bit of input in the rods being made, along with two other. Peter Pearson, and Tony white.
There is more to them, than anyone would realise.
Tony.
RE: fantastic but not cheap - Ruairidh Dunford - 05-01-2019
Sounds right up my street Tony - are these the same design rods as your previous Hadley ones? Those were a dream to fit.
RE: fantastic but not cheap - Tony Betts - 05-01-2019
Hi R,
Exactly the same.
Usually I only get the rods done at the same time as the counterbalanced cranks.
So the rods are out of stock for large periods of time. Well years at a time.
They are not cheap to have made, sadly very little profit for me as a business.
I used to do the same rod and a standard crank in an 1 5/16 as the kiddy crank and rods. But the cranks are expensive and massively slow to get made. The rods were also not cheap, but did come in a lot quicker. In short a lot of bother for little gain.
Tony.
RE: fantastic but not cheap - Colin Reed - 06-01-2019
(05-01-2019, 09:51 PM)Zetomagneto Wrote:(05-01-2019, 09:21 PM)Colin Reed Wrote: HI Tony,
Would recommend the Rods they are TOP END well finished and perfectly Balanced
and happy to enlarge small end to 15mm for me
Colin
NZ
Hi Colin, may I ask what Pistons you are using with a 15 mm small end?
Hi Zeto,
HONDA CB650 59.8 mm
Cheers Colin
NZ